Mobile
Smartphones now account for half of all mobile phones
Market research firm Nielsen today announced that half of all mobile phone subscribers in the United States now own a smartphone. According to data compiled through February 2012, smartphones have grown to account for 49.7 percent of all mobile phones, up considerably from 36 percent just one year ago. What’s more, the last three months [...]
Enigma E2 is ‘world’s most secure mobile,’ costs a bomb
If you lie awake at night worrying about faceless organizations listening in to your mobile phone calls and making judgments on the minutiae of your miserable life, then help is at hand. The Tripleton Enigma E2 is being billed as the world’s most secure mobile — and it has a serious price-tag to match: $ [...]
Mobile Malware: Beware Drive-by Downloads on Your Smartphone
While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen. The “ad” looked like the prompt that appears when his phone rings. He clicked the button on the ad [...]
Top five ways to market your mobile app
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jason Devitt, CEO of Mr. Number. Mr. Number is an Android app that enhances caller ID at the most basic level and provides a variety of tools for managing who can contact you, how they can contact you, and when they can contact you. What’s almost as [...]
Guest post: Top Five Ways to Market Your Mobile App
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jason Devitt, CEO of Mr. Number. Mr. Number is an Android app that enhances caller ID at the most basic level and provides a variety of tools for managing who can contact you, how they can contact you, and when they can contact you. What’s almost as [...]
SelectCore Develops Android Mobile Banking App for Iridium MasterCard
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 20, 2012) – SelectCore Ltd. (the “Company“) (TSX VENTURE:SCG.V – News), a prepaid telecom and financial services transaction processor for the under-banked consumer market, is pleased to announce that it has completed the development of the Android version of the Company‘s mobile banking app for Iridium MasterCard. Similar to the recently [...]
HTC One V slated for Virgin Mobile?
Another day and the Web spits out another HTC rumor to tease us with tantalizing new handsets. This time it’s the HTC One V, kid brother to the HTC One X and One S, which will run a single-core CPU unlike its quad-core and dual-core siblings. Still, if the predictions of gadget blog PocketNow are [...]
‘Draw Something’ Tops iOS, Android App Charts: 5 Other Addictive Mobile Games To Play
Even though the app is only five weeks old, the turn-based Pictionary-style game called “Draw Something,” created and developed by New York-based gaming company OMGPOP, has risen to the top of the iOS and Android App Stores. The addictive drawing and guessing game boasts 25 million registered users, 10 million active daily users, and almost [...]
‘Draw Something’ Tops iOS, Android App Charts: 5 Other Addictive Mobile Games To Play
Even though the app is only five weeks old, the turn-based Pictionary-style game called “Draw Something,” created and developed by New York-based gaming company OMGPOP, has risen to the top of the iOS and Android App Stores. The addictive drawing and guessing game boasts 25 million registered users, 10 million active daily users, and almost [...]
Virgin Mobile lands the HTC One V?
Our friends over at PocketNow have it on good authority that the HTC One V will be released for Virgin Mobile. The device will land for the no contract carrier sometime in spring and will retail for less than $ 200. That’s an awesome deal for a device that features a unique unibody design …